The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, let's not talk about mooncakes, let's talk about Chinese pastries including mooncakes!
Chinese-style pastries are pastries that are processed by baking, baking, steaming, frying and other methods, which can be served early, can also be accompanied by tea, and can also be on the table at banquets.
Because the raw materials are different in different places and the eating habits are also very different, the pastries in various parts of China also have their own characteristics, of which the Beijing school, the Jinyang school, the Su school, the Shanghai school, the Sichuan school, the Ning school, the Min school, the Dian school, the Chao school, the Canton school and so on are the most typical.
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Beijing pie pastries are usually called rao, and the shops that sell pastries are called rao shops. Every season, the dumpling shop will serve different pastries, this famous Beijing "eight pieces", originally the Qing Dynasty royal family in the sacrifice ceremony, red and white birthday feast, put on eight plates, printed with auspicious words of the pastry. At the airport and railway station in Beijing today, you can buy eight pieces of Beijing as a specialty of Beijing.
Tianjin, which is close to Beijing, has developed the "Tianjin Eight Pieces" under the influence of beijing eight pieces, although it is also eight pieces, but the tianjin eight pieces are more compact and exquisite, using hawthorn, roses, green plums, sugar, bean paste, date paste, pepper salt, raisins and other eight kinds of fillings. As soon as the eight pieces of fresh food are placed on the paper, they can seep out oil.
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Yangpai pastries in Yangzhou and Zhenjiang areas are also very distinctive, and the filling is mainly black hemp, preserves and sesame oil, and the flavor of hemp is outstanding. The crab shell yellow cake developed on the basis of the "Hu Cake" of the Tang Dynasty is also called Huangqiao Baked Cake. As early as the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou had many dim sum shops that operated refreshments and snacks at the right time.
In the old days, Suzhou pastries strictly followed the rules of spring cakes, summer cakes, autumn crisps and winter sugar, and were fragrant with osmanthus flowers and roses, which was the characteristic of romantic Supai pastries. Pine nut yellow cake, rice maple cake, lard hibiscus candy, although the raw materials are not much different, but through different preparation methods, the taste is very different. Suzhou's sesame crisp sugar, sweet and salty Su-style mooncakes are well-known.
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Muffins, muffins, thin crisps, and a pinch of puff pastry are the four traditional famous spots in Shanghai Gaoqiao. Crispy and oily muffins, thin crisps and a pinch of puff pastry soothe the stomach of many perched or passing through the great Shanghai, and the Takahashi muffins with various fruits and roses and sugar plate oil cubes arranged in different patterns also earned enough eyeballs.
Sichuan-style pastries, although the reputation is a little weaker, but because of the unique ingredients, unique flavor, but also their own system. Sweet and delicious, the crispy peach pastry is one of the main pastries in Sichuan-style pastries. Peach slices with sweet, eight treasures, pepper salt, corn, kudzu powder, mint and other flavors are the childhood memories of many Hechuan people.
The pastries in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, are mainly crisp and have a unique shape, forming a unique Ning-style pastry. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there are records about Ning-style pastries, among which the "Little King Cake", also known as "Prince Cake", is still the memory of many people's childhood.
Fujian cakes are characterized by sweetness and outstanding seafood flavor, with typical pastries such as courtesy cakes, bowl cakes, lard cakes, salty real pastries, swastika cakes, chestnut cakes and so on. Among them, the gift cake is not only used as an engagement dowry, but also used to honor the elders every Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Dianpai pastries are characterized by flowers, which is nothing unusual, after all, yunnan flower mooncakes have never been eaten or heard. "Ham bun four two lumps", but also let the Dian-style pastry fragrance for a hundred years, has become a famous product all over the world. Cloud leg mooncake, also known as "hard shell ham cake", is known as "food legend".
If you haven't heard of hip pie pastry, you must have heard of wife cake! Wife cakes travel the country not only by name, but also by their golden crispy crust and honey-like sweet filling.
Speaking of pastries, we must not forget the Cantonese. After all, if you eat more morning tea, the pastry cannot be monotonous. The Cantonese pastries developed by absorbing the pastry technology from all over the north are rich in categories, and there are 23 kinds of pastry skins in four categories and 46 kinds of fillings in three categories. Among the wide variety of Cantonese pastries, dry steaming, char siu buns, egg tarts (pastries), and shrimp dumplings are among the four kings.
Having said so many pastries, I wonder what your favorite Chinese pastry is?
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